Cats Movie Review Guardian

Adapting Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical Cats for the big screen was always going to be a gamble but reviews from the critics have been especially damning.

Cats movie review guardian. Cats review a purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woe The queasy fears prompted by one of the most disturbing movie trailers ever seen are realised in full in Tom Hoopers jaw-dropping feline folly. Is as bad as it looks. In a horrifying medley of creatures with human faces and proportions covered in CGI fur Cats delves into a whirlwind fantasy that would have been better left untold.

She simply knows shes no longer wanted. Cats dance and film are three of my favorite things. Jennifer Hudson gives Memory plenty of welly even if she tends to emote in all the wrong places.

Cats review will haunt. But the real issue is the distracting and disturbing digital fur technology. If youre not familiar with the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats is based on Old Possums Book of Practical Cats by TS.

A cat named Victoria Francesca Hayward is abandoned in a London alleyway. From the moment that the first trailer dropped for Tom Hoopers film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webbers Broadway classic Cats the internets mouths have been firmly agape. Francesca Hayward James Corden Judi Dench Jason Derulo Idris Elba Jennifer Hudson Ian McKellen Taylor Swift Rebel Wilson.

But the delicate and beautiful white cat is certainly not. The New Film Is As Cat-Astrophic As That Trailer Suggested The CGI effects arent the only problem in this already-infamous new version of Andrew Lloyd Webbers classic musical. Cats is destined to go.

There is a long and happy cinematic tradition of great stage musicals being converted into memorable films. Cats the original monster megamusical must have been something to see when it opened in London in 1981. Cats movie review.